In Qumran, these are ruins of a religious settlement of Essenes.  They were the ones who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, and they settled here in around 150 B.C.  The Essenes were wiped out by the Romans in 88 A.D.
{"Image ImageDescription": "\"                               \"", "Image Make": "\"SONY\"", "Image Model": "\"DSC-W80\"", "Image XResolution": "200", "Image YResolution": "200", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "\"Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 Windows\"", "Image DateTime": "2009:03:22 21:10:30", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "262", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/320", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2009:03:14 07:26:55", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2009:03:14 07:26:55", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal"}